Hyderabad man dies in US; family seeks EAM Jaishankar’s help to bring back body

Mohammed Hussain’s family is seeking government assistance to bring his remains back to India. A 27-year-old man from Hyderabad’s Santoshnagar died in Massachusetts in the United States on Monday, September 14, with his family seeking government assistance to bring his remains back to India.Mohammed Jaber Hussain, who was reportedly living in Lowell, had moved to…

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Meet Anirudh Rao, the 11-year-old who turned a tornado disaster into a drone-and-sensor system aiming to extend alerts from 13 to 40 minutes |

At just 11, Anirudh Rao began looking at tornado warnings from a different angle: not how to predict storms perfectly, but how to give people more time to respond. Growing up in Colorado, where tornadoes are a recurring threat, Rao developed Revere, a prototype system combining drones and sensors that measure factors such as infrasound,…

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NYC bodega cat Jabal returned after being snatched from street, owner had announced $500 no-questions-asked reward; woman in custody

Community rallied behind the search for Jabal, a three-month-old kitten, after it was seen snatched by two people outside the NYC Bodega it belongs to. A three-month-old bodega cat has been reunited with his Brooklyn owner after he was allegedly snatched from a Park Slope street by a man and woman, triggering a neighborhood-wide search…

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Britain released two beavers into a 10-hectare forest; 5 years later, peak water flow fell 46.6% and baseflow rose by 417% |

Eurasian beaver and kit by the River Tay in Scotland. Image Credit: Wikipedia In 2019, two Eurasian beavers were released into a 10-hectare woodland in North Yorkshire, where their activity gradually reshaped the way water moved through the site. Over the next five years, the animals built dams and created new areas of standing water,…

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Australian scientists have created a cyborg cockroach that could locate victims and save lives in disaster zones

Small robots and drones have come far from their original aims of creation. From hospitality service to spiritual guidance and even disaster response, they are being deployed in numerous fields. Recently, numerous locations across the world have suffered through major disasters, including earthquakes, and victims are still being searched for in rescue operations that have…

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US warns citizens to ‘reconsider travel’ to Saudi Arabia amid Houthi attacks, issues Level 3 advisory

Yemen’s Houthi rebels march during a mobilization campaign in Sanaa, Yemen. (AP Photo) The United States has advised its citizens to reconsider travel to Saudi Arabia amid renewed security threats from Iranian missile and drone attacks, armed conflict and terrorism. It also issued a separate Level 4 “Do Not Travel” warning for the Yemen border.“Reconsider…

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Finland’s coast is still rising after the Ice Age; around the Gulf of Bothnia, 1,730 acres emerge each year, but waterfront owners may not own the new land

According to the news, Finland’s National Land Survey says the fastest uplift occurs around Kvarken, where the land rises by almost one centimeter a year. For thousands of years, Finland’s western shoreline has been quietly changing shape. Ground that was once pressed beneath an enormous sheet of ice is still rising, pushing parts of the…

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Pakistan ministers warn of energy crisis; Shehbaz government struggles as fuel prices break records

Shehbaz ministers warn of energy crisis as Pakistan fuel prices surge Pakistan is facing a widening energy crunch as disruptions around key Gulf shipping routes push up global oil prices, fuel costs surge and the government weighs measures to curb petroleum consumption.Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s government is facing pressure on multiple fronts, with ministers…

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Saudi Arabia released 313 desert gazelles; 20 years later, both species had established in a vast protected desert | World News

Across one of Saudi Arabia’s largest protected desert landscapes, a conservation experiment that began in the 1990s is still visible two decades later. A total of 313 captive-bred Arabian and sand gazelles were released into Uruq Bani Ma’arid, where their movements were first followed with radio tracking. When researchers returned in 2015–2016, a large camera-trap…

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